I've grown lots of cuttings by using tap water and a CAP full (about the size of a screw top on a soda bottle) of hydrogen peroxide 3% volume in a jam jar full of water. Another term for hydrogen peroxide is oxygenated water, this powers up the water with oxygen that the plant uses to grow roots. It also helps keep the water clean. Once a week, tip the water out, flush the jar, and repeat with clean water and another cap full. Worth a go!
Thanks so much for this info! I'm definitely going to try a little hydrogen peroxide in the water. I have a few cuttings to work with today and now I'm pretty excited to see what happens ❤
Storks that start in water tend to adapt to water and can reject the soil when potting. It's not often but does lower the success rate. I put them in pots every time keeping the soil wet until rooted. Anyone wanting to stick to water can add a little soil to the water to help prevent stem from converting to water.
@@wayneschmidt490 It would be interesting to see a test run between water, water with a little soil and one with just soil to see what the success rate is between them.
I've experienced this too, like a repotting stress that stunts some water started cuttings. now I'm reluctant to do it. my personal highest success rate across the most varieties of semi hardwood and softwood cuttings is a tray of damp sand closed in a white kitchen trash bag, rooting hormone optional (adds maybe another 5 or 10% to the success rate, almost statistically insignificant to me as a hobbyist)
I just soak my cuttings in tap water in a clear glass jar for a few days and then stick them in a pot in potting soil. Before placing them in the jars of water, I remove all growth from the bottom 2 to 4 nodes. I keep the pots in a shaded area and water daily. The humidity helps the roots grow. If you give them a tug and there's resistance, there are roots. It might take longer for some plants, but I'm not always ready to plant the things I'm rooting right away anyway. I've had pretty good luck with this method.
I’ve tested propagations a few ways… what seems to work for me is dipping the end in clonex and letting the plant sit out with it for about 10-15mins. Then put it in water. 12 hours/24 hours later I dump the purple water out and put it back in regular water. It gives the plant time to absorb the growth hormones enough but without burning the cutting from the harshness of the clonex.
It seems basil is one of the easiest cuttings to root. I’ve been attempting to root parsley cuttings in water and in “soil” -both flat leaf and curled-but no luck so far. I’d love to hear from somebody that’s had success rooting parsley cuttings whatever the method 👍
I recently did similar experiment with basil cuttings. A few in tap water and a few in compost tea. TW rooted at day 6, CT took longer, day 9. By day 14, CT roots were about 3 times fuller and longer than TW.
@@JustSageIt My compost tumbler sits on a base that catches the compost tea. It was silly expensive when I bought a few years ago, today it's twice what I paid for it - Envirocycle. If you're composting "low tech," simply soak your composting material, let it stew for a few days and then drain/strain off the liquid.
Great video. Such useful information. I thought that adding nutrition to the water might help, but your video's making me to just stick on regular tap water. Thank you for sharing
What about city water that has chlorine? Would you rec a dechlorinator? I’ve read that fish tank dechlorinator that's also safe for aquatic plants may help.
I've found that the technique that works best varies by species. Soaking tomatoes will only increase your mortality. Simply sticking them in potting mix and watering gets me 100% success unless I try to root something ridiculously large. Peppers, on the other hand, benefit from presoaking and dipping in hormones. I'm sure if you did the same experiment with different species, you'd get very different results with some of them.
i soak them in tap water and leave them in a 500ml water bottle till they drain it. sorry that it doesn't work for you, for some of my other plants the soaking doesn't work, i have to use soil.
@@johnlinsky19 It's not that it never works with tomatoes. But I had plants get fungal and bacterial infections from soaking, whereas simply putting them in potting mix and watering has worked every time. Tomatoes have little hairs on the stems that turn into roots on contact with soil or a reasonable facsimile. I just found pre-soaking a counterproductive extra step for tomatoes. It helps for rooting peppers. Any plant where you can dig up runners with roots already on them, like mints or raspberries, can just be transplanted directly to their final sight, including non sterile soil outdoors. My only point is that I've found different techniques work better for different plants.
I never changed the water. I only added a little when needed to keep it at the same level. A bubbler wouldn't hurt, but I didn't use one. Thanks for commenting!
I plant them in pots first to let them develop enough of a root system to survive outside. I use regular potting soil, thoroughly watered and very gently introduce the plants into the pot, spreading them out as much as possible and adding soil around them to cover.
It's Cuphea David Verity, commonly called firecracker plant or cigar plant. It's a great plant for hummingbirds. I'm in zone 8/9 and in winter it dies back to the ground then grows back in Spring. Of course in my high desert location the cold weather of winter doesn't really start until the middle of December and Spring's warmer weather comes in March. It's a very neat plant that flowers almost as soon as it sprouts and continues right up to the first frosts. I don't know if it would survive a zone 7 winter. Thanks for commenting!
interesting. i had plants rooting well in 2 separate cups of water. i added some rooting powder to one cup, and the next day the roots in that cup started to brown and wither in parts, when i was expecting them to grow like crazy. strange.
@@wayneschmidt490i probably used too much of the stuff. was experimenting with hydroponic solutions too and the roots do well if the amount of nutrients is not too high. too much and they start to brown and die.
I've never had that problem. Changing the water might help, making sure that the container is thoroughly washed beforehand. Sorry I can't be more specific. Thanks for commenting!
This is so interesting to me. I am wondering if the results would be different using an aeroponic rooter. I guess I will have to do some experiments myself. I have a Clone King, and use it for different flowers, shrubs, and house plants. I put some rooting hormone in the water and things don't seem to be rooting very quickly.
Hi! And thanks for commenting! Since posting this video I've done more rooting and found that different plants root better than others and respond to rooting compounds differently. The Cuphea David Verity used in this test roots extremely fast and easy in water. Repeating it with Clonex I discovered the Clonex inhibits rooting in this plant. But helps others. It almost seems like the best rooting technique has to be determined for each type of plant. A one-size-fits-all approach isn't ideal. Your idea of using an aeroponic rooter sounds interesting. If you do some tests with it, please let me know how they turn out. Thanks again for writing!
It's Cuphia David Verity. It turns out it may have been a poor choice for this experiment because it roots very easily. David Verity is an easy to grow, pest free bush that blooms almost all year 'round. Hummingbirds love it.
Some cuttings respond well to Clonex, so I'd wait a week or so and see how they do. The cuttings I used were Cuphea David Verity, which naturally produce roots very quickly because they already contain a large amount of root making hormones e. My problem may have been that the Clonex overloaded them.
Hi My name is safe(From the countries of the East, the country of Iraq) Can a plant survive in water without root rot? I am facing a problem when I transfer the plant from the water to the soil weaken and die But when I keep it in water it keeps growing!!! ? What is the explanation for this strange situation!.?
Root rot usually isn't a problem when trying to get cuttings to grow roots because they do so quickly enough that it doesn't't have a chance to start. If it does, using clean water and washing off the roots has stopped it for me the few times it's been an issue. Cuttings can survive several weeks in plain water because they draw nutrients from the stem itself. Plants require a hydroponic nutrient solution. Most rooted cuttings die when transplanted into soil because they are put into direct sunlight before their roots adapt to the soil or the soil is too dry. I've had very good luck by translating rooted cutting into small pots, keeping the soil damp for at least a week and keeping them in the same shaded area the cuttings were placed in while they were in the water rooting. Please note that each type pf plant has a different rooting ability. Some, like the Cipher David Verity used in this experiment, root very fast so rot isn't a problem. Others may take much longer, making rot problems more common. You may have to conduct some experiments for the particular plant you're trying to root to figure out what works best for it. I hope this helps. Good luck!
hello, i did a maple cutting in water the cutting managed to grow new leaves and then later on the leaves start to droop and then it starts to wilt and curl...then it never rooted and died later, some of the maple cuttings had rot at the end of cuttings and others didn't not sure why this is happening i place them directly on my window ledge for some good sunlight can you please help kind of depressing to see all of them die. thanks.
I was sorry to read that your maple cuttings died. It may be that maple being a hardwood type of plant that they don't set roots from cuttings easily. Another issue may be how much light they were getting. Since the cuttings have no roots, they can't draw up a lot of water. Direct sunlight might over tax their ability to pull up sufficient water. While mine are in a window, I cover the window with a sheet of white cloth so they aren't in full sunlight. This gives them enough light for photosynthesis but not so much that they dry out. Another fact is how many leaves are on each cutting. Too many can, again, create too much demand for water. I usually pick off all but two or three small leaflets. I hope this helps.
Another way I help my cuttings stay hydrated is that I partially cover them so that the humidity around them stays high. If search TH-cam for "How To Root Maple Cuttings" you'll find a lot of videos. Most appear to start with cuttings that aren't leafed out yet.
@@wayneschmidt490 thank you for this information! , yep my cutting was a hardwood cutting perhaps that is why it was harder for to grow, i will cover my cuttings when placed near the window maybe not enough humidity contained that is probably why they are dying, and i will leave only a couple leaves on the plant thanks again friend.
@@oreo598 No! I checked out your channel and while watching one of your videos was appalled by your actions! 🙂I don't mind you killing people, but you ran across the bad guy's vegetable garden! Do you have any idea what your combat boots did to those neatly planted rows of helpless plants?!
dipping the bottom of the stem in raw honey seems to help th-cam.com/video/PvbAp2z_EbQ/w-d-xo.html also, raw honey seems to be way better than pasteurized honey th-cam.com/video/--Z4yR_Fk3k/w-d-xo.html
Maybe the chlorine in the tap water kills the harmful bacteria that would inhibit root growth. I am experimenting with all kinds of plants/flowers both annuals and perennials, and finding out that there are more plants than we know that can get roots by just placing them in plain water. Once they have roots I transplant them into a pot, and a couple of weeks later I plant them in the soil. Thank You.
I see you have a TH-cam channel. Have you ever thought of making a video about your experiments and posting it? I'm sure many people, including myself, would be interested in seeing your results. Thanks for the comment!
Since that is basically distilled water, unless you're collecting it off a roof or in an area of acid rain, I wouldn't think it would make any difference.
Hi! Thank you for commenting. I'm happy to address your issues with the video, but I'll need a little clarification on your comment to do so. 1. Who is the "they" you mention? I'm the only one narrating the video. 2. You said it would be better to, 'explain the text.' There is no text in this video. What text are you talking about? 3. You asked for a translation. I can't do that because there's no way to provide translations for all possible languages. I think TH-cam can do that, but when I tried enabling that feature in 'settings' it wouldn't work. Can you explain how to set that up? Thank you for your help in improving this video.
I've grown lots of cuttings by using tap water and a CAP full (about the size of a screw top on a soda bottle) of hydrogen peroxide 3% volume in a jam jar full of water. Another term for hydrogen peroxide is oxygenated water, this powers up the water with oxygen that the plant uses to grow roots. It also helps keep the water clean. Once a week, tip the water out, flush the jar, and repeat with clean water and another cap full. Worth a go!
Thank you! I'll try it.
Thanks so much for this info! I'm definitely going to try a little hydrogen peroxide in the water. I have a few cuttings to work with today and now I'm pretty excited to see what happens ❤
Thanks a lot for the advise. Do you think this will work with chiltepin pepper cuttings too ?
@@carlyhenning2765 Did it work?
@@carlyhenning2765 Have you tried it?
Straight to the point! I appreciate you! Tap water it is!
Nice experiment! Thank you!!!
This is very informative and to the point. Thank you!
You're welcome, and thanks for commenting!
Storks that start in water tend to adapt to water and can reject the soil when potting. It's not often but does lower the success rate. I put them in pots every time keeping the soil wet until rooted. Anyone wanting to stick to water can add a little soil to the water to help prevent stem from converting to water.
Interesting point! Thanks for the comment!
@@wayneschmidt490 It would be interesting to see a test run between water, water with a little soil and one with just soil to see what the success rate is between them.
I've experienced this too, like a repotting stress that stunts some water started cuttings. now I'm reluctant to do it. my personal highest success rate across the most varieties of semi hardwood and softwood cuttings is a tray of damp sand closed in a white kitchen trash bag, rooting hormone optional (adds maybe another 5 or 10% to the success rate, almost statistically insignificant to me as a hobbyist)
Super informative!! Thank you!!
You're welcome! I checked out your channel, you have an adorable little dog.
I just soak my cuttings in tap water in a clear glass jar for a few days and then stick them in a pot in potting soil. Before placing them in the jars of water, I remove all growth from the bottom 2 to 4 nodes. I keep the pots in a shaded area and water daily. The humidity helps the roots grow. If you give them a tug and there's resistance, there are roots.
It might take longer for some plants, but I'm not always ready to plant the things I'm rooting right away anyway. I've had pretty good luck with this method.
Great ideas! Thank you!
I’ve tested propagations a few ways… what seems to work for me is dipping the end in clonex and letting the plant sit out with it for about 10-15mins. Then put it in water. 12 hours/24 hours later I dump the purple water out and put it back in regular water. It gives the plant time to absorb the growth hormones enough but without burning the cutting from the harshness of the clonex.
I'll have to try that. Thanks for the idea and commenting!
@@wayneschmidt490 Thank you (: I enjoyed your video!
@@JustSageIt You're welcome, and thanks for commenting!
It seems basil is one of the easiest cuttings to root. I’ve been attempting to root parsley cuttings in water and in “soil” -both flat leaf and curled-but no luck so far. I’d love to hear from somebody that’s had success rooting parsley cuttings whatever the method 👍
Most interesting experiment. I have been think about the same...whether growth hormone does any good as an additive in water. Thank you.
You're welcome!
I recently did similar experiment with basil cuttings. A few in tap water and a few in compost tea. TW rooted at day 6, CT took longer, day 9. By day 14, CT roots were about 3 times fuller and longer than TW.
Great information! Thank you.
Interesting. I wonder if it would be worth starting in water and then moving to compost tea
Do you mind sharing how you made/used for the CT?
@@JustSageIt My compost tumbler sits on a base that catches the compost tea. It was silly expensive when I bought a few years ago, today it's twice what I paid for it - Envirocycle. If you're composting "low tech," simply soak your composting material, let it stew for a few days and then drain/strain off the liquid.
@@michaelmontero8357 Ahhh okay! Now I get it. I think that's the method my mom used to do. Now she has a huge barrel thing ha
Great video. Such useful information. I thought that adding nutrition to the water might help, but your video's making me to just stick on regular tap water. Thank you for sharing
You're very welcome, and thanks for commenting!
I use regular water always give me results
I've always had a positive outcome w/ using tap water
There's a conspiracy theory here somewhere
Very interesting
Thanks Bro🙏
Nice work 👌👏👏👏
Thank you!
Thank you for this experiment. I’m trying to root Cape Honeysuckle.
Good luck!
What about city water that has chlorine? Would you rec a dechlorinator? I’ve read that fish tank dechlorinator that's also safe for aquatic plants may help.
I used city water and didn't have any problems.
I've found that the technique that works best varies by species. Soaking tomatoes will only increase your mortality. Simply sticking them in potting mix and watering gets me 100% success unless I try to root something ridiculously large. Peppers, on the other hand, benefit from presoaking and dipping in hormones. I'm sure if you did the same experiment with different species, you'd get very different results with some of them.
Great comment! Thank you. That's important information for anyone watching this video.
i soak them in tap water and leave them in a 500ml water bottle till they drain it. sorry that it doesn't work for you, for some of my other plants the soaking doesn't work, i have to use soil.
@@johnlinsky19 It's not that it never works with tomatoes. But I had plants get fungal and bacterial infections from soaking, whereas simply putting them in potting mix and watering has worked every time. Tomatoes have little hairs on the stems that turn into roots on contact with soil or a reasonable facsimile. I just found pre-soaking a counterproductive extra step for tomatoes. It helps for rooting peppers. Any plant where you can dig up runners with roots already on them, like mints or raspberries, can just be transplanted directly to their final sight, including non sterile soil outdoors. My only point is that I've found different techniques work better for different plants.
How often did you change your water? Would you recommend a bubbler for oxygen?
I never changed the water. I only added a little when needed to keep it at the same level. A bubbler wouldn't hurt, but I didn't use one. Thanks for commenting!
Good video 👍
Thank you!
What's the best way to transfer these cuttings that have grown in water into a pot or straight into the garden?
I plant them in pots first to let them develop enough of a root system to survive outside. I use regular potting soil, thoroughly watered and very gently introduce the plants into the pot, spreading them out as much as possible and adding soil around them to cover.
i use my aquarium. works great
Odd, could this be why my plants take forever to root in my aquarium put puts out roots in a week when left in tap water next to a window?
That's a new one on me. I have no idea. I would expect that the nutrient levels in aquarium water are so low it wouldn't have much effect.
What is the name of this plant? I am not familiar with it here in my zone 7 area.
It's Cuphea David Verity, commonly called firecracker plant or cigar plant. It's a great plant for hummingbirds. I'm in zone 8/9 and in winter it dies back to the ground then grows back in Spring. Of course in my high desert location the cold weather of winter doesn't really start until the middle of December and Spring's warmer weather comes in March. It's a very neat plant that flowers almost as soon as it sprouts and continues right up to the first frosts. I don't know if it would survive a zone 7 winter. Thanks for commenting!
@@wayneschmidt490 of course, it is. I realize that now that you said it. I just have never grown it for some reason, maybe bc it is hard to find here.
interesting. i had plants rooting well in 2 separate cups of water. i added some rooting powder to one cup, and the next day the roots in that cup started to brown and wither in parts, when i was expecting them to grow like crazy. strange.
It is. Thanks for the comment!
@@wayneschmidt490i probably used too much of the stuff. was experimenting with hydroponic solutions too and the roots do well if the amount of nutrients is not too high. too much and they start to brown and die.
I'm propagating in water and some stem are rotting at the ends, how can I avoid this, I change the water regularly? Thank you.
I've never had that problem. Changing the water might help, making sure that the container is thoroughly washed beforehand. Sorry I can't be more specific. Thanks for commenting!
This is so interesting to me. I am wondering if the results would be different using an aeroponic rooter.
I guess I will have to do some experiments myself.
I have a Clone King, and use it for different flowers, shrubs, and house plants. I put some rooting hormone in the water and things don't seem to be rooting very quickly.
Hi! And thanks for commenting!
Since posting this video I've done more rooting and found that different plants root better than others and respond to rooting compounds differently. The Cuphea David Verity used in this test roots extremely fast and easy in water. Repeating it with Clonex I discovered the Clonex inhibits rooting in this plant. But helps others.
It almost seems like the best rooting technique has to be determined for each type of plant. A one-size-fits-all approach isn't ideal.
Your idea of using an aeroponic rooter sounds interesting. If you do some tests with it, please let me know how they turn out. Thanks again for writing!
With your next experiment try the cutting with clonex in soil ! None of the rooting hormone powders and gels have worked for me :(
Thanks for the idea!
What is this plant called?
It's Cuphia David Verity. It turns out it may have been a poor choice for this experiment because it roots very easily. David Verity is an easy to grow, pest free bush that blooms almost all year 'round. Hummingbirds love it.
I love ‘David Verity’ 💚
So do I! They are carefree, bloom almost all year long and hummingbirds love them. Thanks for the comment!
😢 I just used clonex for my first cuttings. Oh no!!!! Maybe I should wash them off and replace the water? Is it too late?
Some cuttings respond well to Clonex, so I'd wait a week or so and see how they do. The cuttings I used were Cuphea David Verity, which naturally produce roots very quickly because they already contain a large amount of root making hormones e. My problem may have been that the Clonex overloaded them.
@@wayneschmidt490 Thank you - I will wait and cross my fingers. Mine are cuttings from Ficus Benjamina and Ficus Retusa... Maybe I'll luck out. 🤞
Hi
My name is safe(From the countries of the East, the country of Iraq)
Can a plant survive in water without root rot?
I am facing a problem when I transfer the plant from the water to the soil
weaken and die
But when I keep it in water it keeps growing!!! ?
What is the explanation for this strange situation!.?
Root rot usually isn't a problem when trying to get cuttings to grow roots because they do so quickly enough that it doesn't't have a chance to start. If it does, using clean water and washing off the roots has stopped it for me the few times it's been an issue. Cuttings can survive several weeks in plain water because they draw nutrients from the stem itself. Plants require a hydroponic nutrient solution. Most rooted cuttings die when transplanted into soil because they are put into direct sunlight before their roots adapt to the soil or the soil is too dry. I've had very good luck by translating rooted cutting into small pots, keeping the soil damp for at least a week and keeping them in the same shaded area the cuttings were placed in while they were in the water rooting. Please note that each type pf plant has a different rooting ability. Some, like the Cipher David Verity used in this experiment, root very fast so rot isn't a problem. Others may take much longer, making rot problems more common. You may have to conduct some experiments for the particular plant you're trying to root to figure out what works best for it. I hope this helps. Good luck!
hello, i did a maple cutting in water the cutting managed to grow new leaves and then later on the leaves start to droop and then it starts to wilt and curl...then it never rooted and died later, some of the maple cuttings had rot at the end of cuttings and others didn't not sure why this is happening i place them directly on my window ledge for some good sunlight can you please help kind of depressing to see all of them die. thanks.
I was sorry to read that your maple cuttings died. It may be that maple being a hardwood type of plant that they don't set roots from cuttings easily. Another issue may be how much light they were getting. Since the cuttings have no roots, they can't draw up a lot of water. Direct sunlight might over tax their ability to pull up sufficient water. While mine are in a window, I cover the window with a sheet of white cloth so they aren't in full sunlight. This gives them enough light for photosynthesis but not so much that they dry out. Another fact is how many leaves are on each cutting. Too many can, again, create too much demand for water. I usually pick off all but two or three small leaflets. I hope this helps.
Another way I help my cuttings stay hydrated is that I partially cover them so that the humidity around them stays high. If search TH-cam for "How To Root Maple Cuttings" you'll find a lot of videos. Most appear to start with cuttings that aren't leafed out yet.
@@wayneschmidt490 thank you for this information! , yep my cutting was a hardwood cutting perhaps that is why it was harder for to grow, i will cover my cuttings when placed near the window maybe not enough humidity contained that is probably why they are dying, and i will leave only a couple leaves on the plant thanks again friend.
@@oreo598 Good luck!
@@oreo598 No! I checked out your channel and while watching one of your videos was appalled by your actions! 🙂I don't mind you killing people, but you ran across the bad guy's vegetable garden! Do you have any idea what your combat boots did to those neatly planted rows of helpless plants?!
dipping the bottom of the stem in raw honey seems to help th-cam.com/video/PvbAp2z_EbQ/w-d-xo.html
also, raw honey seems to be way better than pasteurized honey th-cam.com/video/--Z4yR_Fk3k/w-d-xo.html
I'll try it! Thank you!
❤
Maybe the chlorine in the tap water kills the harmful bacteria that would inhibit root growth. I am experimenting with all kinds of plants/flowers both annuals and perennials, and finding out that there are more plants than we know that can get roots by just placing them in plain water. Once they have roots I transplant them into a pot, and a couple of weeks later I plant them in the soil. Thank You.
I see you have a TH-cam channel. Have you ever thought of making a video about your experiments and posting it? I'm sure many people, including myself, would be interested in seeing your results. Thanks for the comment!
How about rain water?
Since that is basically distilled water, unless you're collecting it off a roof or in an area of acid rain, I wouldn't think it would make any difference.
@@wayneschmidt490thanks 😊
this may be because the absence of nutrients make the roots grow more to "search" for nutrients.
It would have been better if they had explained the text and the translation of the text so that we would have used it.
Hi! Thank you for commenting. I'm happy to address your issues with the video, but I'll need a little clarification on your comment to do so.
1. Who is the "they" you mention? I'm the only one narrating the video.
2. You said it would be better to, 'explain the text.' There is no text in this video. What text are you talking about?
3. You asked for a translation. I can't do that because there's no way to provide translations for all possible languages. I think TH-cam can do that, but when I tried enabling that feature in 'settings' it wouldn't work. Can you explain how to set that up?
Thank you for your help in improving this video.